Aquatic macrophytes and macroinvertebrate predators affect densities of snail hosts and local produc...
Aquatic macrophytes and macroinvertebrate predators affect densities of snail hosts and local production of schistosome cercariae that cause human schistosomiasis
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Haggerty, Christopher J. E. , Bakhoum, Sidy , Civitello, David J. , De Leo, Giulio A. , Jouanard, Nicolas , Ndione, Raphael A. , Remais, Justin V. , Riveau, Gilles , Senghor, Simon , Sokolow, Susanne H. , Sow, Souleymane , Wolfe, Caitlin , Wood, Chelsea L. , Jones, Isabel , Chamberlin, Andrew J. and Rohr, Jason R.
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San Francisco: Public Library of Science
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Background Schistosomiasis is responsible for the second highest burden of disease among neglected tropical diseases globally, with over 90 percent of cases occurring in African regions where drugs to treat the disease are only sporadically available. Additionally, human re-infection after treatment can be a problem where there are high numbers of...
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Aquatic macrophytes and macroinvertebrate predators affect densities of snail hosts and local production of schistosome cercariae that cause human schistosomiasis
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_2434499625
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_2434499625
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1935-2735,1935-2727
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1935-2735
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0008417
